By chance I happen to be in Birmingham on one of the evenings when the lovely Nick Booth runs his social media surgeries in the fantastic Fazeley Studios.
And I’m helping out by showing some folk how to blog and post pictures.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eViRQUec3WQ]The London experiment with weekly media-making meetups continued this evening with another member getting his first taste of videoblogging. Guy West has been a regular at our discussion groups and kindly recorded some audio at one of the meetings. We sat in the brand new foyer of the British Film Institute/National Film Theatre which only…
We don’t know what’s going to happen. That’s all we can say. But since mainstream and broadcast news needs stories to keep filling up the column inches and rolling news hours, we’re seeing large amounts of speculation about what *might* happen, what effect we *might* see of pandemic swine flu and when that’s exhausted itself,…
Well, more like I have some compassion for him – but “I have compassion for the fool” sounds like something Martin in the Simpsons would get punched for saying (more Simpsons later). I went to the Frontline Club last night, actually, thanks Euan for reminding me that I *paid* to go to the Frontline Club…
A good morning for podcast listening on the train into London. First up Morning Coffee Notes for April 14th from Dave Winer, in which he answers questions for Robert Scoble and Shel Israel about how and why he started blogging and what was the story with the creation of RSS, oh yeah and remembers he…
Just a snippet. Cross not to have power supply. Sir Tim says something to the effect of: People doing interesting things fall between stools. The web has to be thought of as humanity connected, rather than an interconnection of computer systems. And you have to remember it’s big, very big and it’s complex. It’s not…
I’ve been advised by several people that I need to be more exciting… or something. I think what people see is inconsistency – they know I’m a pesky imp inside, but the outside tends to be a little more subdued. It was suggested some time ago, that a little gesture I might make to myself…